Clematis

Clematis

If you follow a strict pruning regime for your wisteria, you will be rewarded with showy pendant racemes of fragrant flowers.

How to prune wisteria

Wisteria needs to be pruned twice a year to keep it in good shape and to ensure abundant flowers. Here's how to do it.
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Clematis montana Group 'Freda'

Clematis montana aren't always rampant: if you're looking for a small climber, then these less vigorous varieties could be what you need

Although known as vigorous plants, Clematis montana can be also be medium sized or even compact. Here are some recommended varieties from the National Collection at the garden of National Collection holder, Val Le Neville-Parry.
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Winter flowering Clematis ‘Fragrant Oberon’

The best winter-flowering clematis

Plant expert John Hoyland recommends 14 of the best winter-flowering clematis to grow in your garden. Photographs by Jason Ingram.
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best climbing plants for gardens - Solanum crispum album

30 of the best climbing plants for 2025

Choose from our selection of best climbing plants and add vertical interest to walls and trellises or allow to scramble over other plants in borders. Plantsman and garden designer Rory Dusoir gives his top recommendations.
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Minster willow trellis against a garden wall

Elevate your garden with the best climbing plant supports of 2025

Give your plants the support they need to help them flourish in the garden. Here are a few of the best wall trellis designs for climbing plants in 2025
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Clematis 'Buckland Beauty'

Which late-flowering clematis to choose

Think of clematis and you probably conjure up the large-flowered types of early summer. But most flower from midsummer to early autumn, with tiny, bell-shaped flowers. Garden designer and writer Noël Kingsbury lists 15 favourites. Photographs by Rachel Warne
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Expert Raymond Evison recommends the best clematis to grow in the garden

Clematis is a much-loved climbing plant that is suitable for gardens of all sizes. Clematis expert Raymond Evison lists his all-time favourite clematis for the garden
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26 of the best scented flowers

Choose scented flowers to give your garden extra appeal. Here's 26 favourites to give you fragrance right through the seasons
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Close-up of flowers of Streptocarpus 'Harlequin Blue'. Chelsea Plant of the Year 2010.

The best plants of the decade

The RHS's chief horticulturist Guy Barter looks back over the plants that have been awarded Chelsea Plant of the Year over the last ten years
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Clematis Kingfisher

Favourite clematis chosen in RHS People's Choice Award

The People's Choice Award had the public voting for the latest varieties of clematis
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